The Massachusetts Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (Act) was approved by the legislature last summer and went into effect April 1, 2018. If you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant, please make yourself aware of your civil rights under the Act, and plan how you are going to exercise them. ACCOMMODATIONS A pregnant …
Brookline High School: How Lessons on White Privilege Can Violate Students’ Civil Rights
Given the recent steps announced by Mayor Bill DeBlasio of New York City to increase the number of Black and Latino students at the city’s most elite public schools and the constitutional implications such a proposition brings, it might serve Brookline well to understand how it is addressing race in its own school district. Examining …
Know Your Rights Seminar for Parents and Those Expecting at the Brookline Public Library on Saturday, July 21st
Spring – actual spring – has finally reared its little head. The official start to the season this year, March 20th, was like a baby's due date: Unreliable. It's no matter now, we’ve forgotten winter already; we have budding life all around us. As busy as the birds and bees this time of year, many …
Paid Paternity Leave under the Equal Pay Act
Beginning July 1, 2018, women – and men – can seek equal payment of “wages” regardless of gender under the newly revised Massachusetts Equal Pay Act (Equal Pay Act). Originally passed in 1945, the Equal Pay Act was at the time the first state law requiring equal pay for equal work. Continuing this tradition as …
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